@iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org Nonprofit organization supporting interactive fiction tools and services. IFComp, Twine, NarraScope, and more.
Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social 🎭 Let's get creative together, on a stage!
✨ Drag clown and videogame programmer
🎈 Interactive artmaking + playful theatre
http://alistair.games
http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
PnP Time @pnptime.bsky.social A platform dedicated to print-and-play games!
Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social https://www.katherinesouza.art/
Storyteller (illustration, writing, + game design)
Making quests for Elder Scrolls Online
All opinions are my own
(she/her)
Follow me as I trudge through my upcoming fantasy artbook!
A Man Possessed @amanpossessed.bsky.social One middle-aged man's journey through #boardgames and #gamedesign. 🎲✂️
Sole Proprietor of:
https://www.seahorseandhummingbird.com
Humble Custodian of:
The Cardboard Commons Discord server
https://discord.gg/TjAjhjSYan
Hawk and Dove Games @hawkanddovegames.bsky.social Tabletop design, development, and publishing. Focused on historical and wargames.
https://www.hawkanddovegames.com/
Rachel Carpenter @skyeenchantress.bsky.social Boardgame designer, blogger, writer, and retail specialist with a background in archaeology, linguistics, and emergency management.
Daily Blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/11393/heralds-call
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/rachelncarpenter
Andrew Fischer @afischergames.bsky.social Game design director at Earthborne Games. Lead designer on the Cosmere RPG. Other credits include Fallout, Star Wars RPG, Mansions of Madness, Journeys in Middle-earth. http://andrewfischergames.com He/him
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📗📕📘
README: http://jisaacgadient.com
🌐 🔗 https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
Buried Giant Studios @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social Beautiful, interactive board games with expressive systems, emergent gameplay, and player-centered storytelling. 🎲 Oath: New Foundations 📜 Arcs: Beyond the Reach 🚀
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler?
Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev
Pres @TasGameMakers.com
@themartianlife.com’s husband.
📍lutruwita 🚫 no crypto/AI
Shey @deadlyshed.bsky.social Hello!
I’m Shey, a 3D generalist who really loves making funky little models.
Currently working on the game Miles Between Us, so go check it out on other platforms!
https://sbala.myportfolio.com
🕯️faulkner’s buzzard🕯️ @faulknersbuzzard.bsky.social I like baseball, ancient/classical/medieval studies, monster movies, weird fiction, all kinds of games, and dialectical materialism. he/him
errand boy sent by grocery clerks
Kevin Hovdestad @hovdestad.ca Director, Brand Development at CATAN Studio
Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social I'm just some dude. A cardboard cowboy. I also write Space-Biff!, the world's first and only board game review site.
Brain Bear @elucidarian.bsky.social Playing ALL THE BOARD GAMES while traipsing through life's challenges.
Also a life-long Great Plains "Red State" resident. Someday we'll be a bastion for socialist farmers again. Yeah, that could happen.
he/him/cis/whiteprivileged/ADHD...
Thomas Wilson @thomaslwilson.com Composer, Researcher, & Educator
Assistant Professor of Music Technology & Game Audio @albany.edu
scott @jscottking.bsky.social 
Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com Board game design and tips for board game makers. cardboardedison.com
Mike Dunn @cozywizrd.gamingtrend.com Tabletop Editor-in-Chief for GamingTrend.com and lover of vinyl, comics, and Ween
GamingTrend @gamingtrend.com One of the longest running independent gaming sites on the web. You won’t find AI generated content at gamingtrend.com -we are by humans, for humans
Be sure to visit our Discord -- join in the conversation: https://discord.gg/CeEWA4m
Chris Prime @chrisinhm.bsky.social Board game lover and designer of Venusian Vegas The Card Game. Dad, husband, liberal.
BoardGameWire @boardgamewire.bsky.social The world’s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. Got a story? An anonymous tip? DM or email Mike Didymus-True on mike@boardgamewire.com
Doug Levandowski (he/him) @douglevandowski.bsky.social Game designer is what's most relevant here. Co-creator of the Kids on... line, Duel of Wands, Home, and a bunch of others.
Currently working on Fast Cars & Family, Spacetrash, and a few secreter projects.
Taylor Shuss @drawnonward.bsky.social Tabletop Game Designer of 🏳️🌈Stonewall Uprising, 🛫Fold & Fly!, 🚶🚴🚈🚌Walkable City, 🤖🗼🦎Creature Control, and 🚀🪐 Quantum Train. (he/him)
Lover of Gundams, handsome men & dexterity games.
BoardGame Animal 🐕 @boardgameanimal.bsky.social Board Game Reviews, Lists, Comedy, Discussions & more! Me & my animal pals talk all sorts of board, tabletop, & card games~
https://youtube.com/@BoardGameAnimal
No One You Know @noykpresents.bsky.social Capital Region Event Planning / DJ Fearless
Instagram: @NOYKpresents
JJ @doble-jota.bsky.social Artist
Elbowface Games @elbowfacegames.bsky.social Indie game publisher of the dice-based puzzle game PARALLAX, coming soon to iOS — https://parallaxgame.app
Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social Follow Counterpoint on Kickstarter:
https://bit.ly/4bRqQWK
Board game designer @ Square Cactus Games — Designing silly little card games to spread joy. 🃏
Product designer @ Halcyon — Helping drive green energy investment and development. 🔋
Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games A multi-contest-winning board game designer in rural Manitoba. I designed Tides (Button Shy), #ExoBase, and #Crownfell which you can buy here:
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/crownfell
More links:
https://weheartgames.kit.com/
Jax Joni Ceceri @jciii.me Studio head at @peripheralplaybox.com Made Drywall Eating Simulator! (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3749110/Drywall_Eating_Simulator/)
Previously: Creative Director of Hello Cruel World
They/Them
https://jciii.me
Peripheral Playbox - Drywall Eating Simulator OUT NOW @peripheralplaybox.com A new game studio led by @jciii.me and @chard.bsky.social
https://www.peripheralplaybox.com
Makers of Drywall Eating Simulator, available now on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3749110/Drywall_Eating_Simulator/
Tyler Zhang @whytyler.bsky.social 
AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io I make small projects in a small apartment
Friend of Arcade Commons
Maker of Particle Mace
I make pen plotter art and tweetcarts sometimes
Buy my drawings: shop.andymakes.com
Play my games: andymakes.itch.io
https://andymakes.com/
University at Albany @albany.edu At #UAlbany, we know greatness. We are fueled by a unique mix of academic excellence & internationally recognized research. #UnleashGreatness
Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
1CC Games @1ccgames.bsky.social Indie arcade game studio from London, UK.
All Gameplay. All the Time™.
https://www.1ccgames.com/
Sam @frogdev822.bsky.social 
ZIPIT! Games @zipit-games.bsky.social 🪸a tiny game studio in nyc🪸
📧zipit.games@gmail.com
our videogame on the back of a giant flying catfish
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/The_Wide_Open_Sky_is_Running_out_of_Catfish/
Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social Artist, researcher, educator, instigator. Chaotic Good.
sebin ⟡ comms [open] @astarsor.bsky.social astarsor.carrd.co
i live in the big city
big into utau and other digital things. ALL OF IT!!!
Vivian Sun @vi5ster.bsky.social She/her
Game Developer and Character Designer
Pratt Student
Doll Parts Studio @dollpartsstudio.bsky.social a game about a doll helping her human companion through the horrors of girlhood and puberty🪡🩸🧵🫀
developed with love by stella barbagiannis, lilli harris, and vivian sun 💌
OUT NOW!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3588590/Doll_Parts/
Ryan Suwan @reegan76.bsky.social He/Him
Game Developer/Level Designer/Animator
Brooklyn
Pratt Institute 2025 BFA
Game Design Future Lab @gdfl.bsky.social The NYU GDFL focuses on digital game design, development, and emerging media with the aim of increasing gaming production and business growth in NYC. Applications are open for the first cohort!
@percydavis.bsky.social @percydavis.bsky.social 
amanda @amandapwll.bsky.social game dev and artist
studying @ Pratt Institute
amandapwll.cargo.site
Ann-Marie Henderson │ PAX East @ann-mariehenderson.bsky.social 
John Broderick @johnbroderick.net Staff @ MAGFest 🕹️⎍⎍⎍🔊
Interests: VGM
🎮 SRB2, Bomberman
@ann-marieh.bsky.social @ann-marieh.bsky.social 
PlayNAO 🎮 Street Hornets 🕹️ Arcade Racer @playnao-games.bsky.social #GameDev working on #StreetHornets, a game inspired by 90's-2000's Arcade Racers.
90年代から2000年代初頭のアーケードレースゲームにインスピレーションを得たレースゲーム「ストリートホーネッツ」を開発しているビデオゲーム開発者です。
Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood @hawtpixel.bsky.social 650 Fonts for just *$19!* https://hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-font-firesale
Artist, Game Designer, Font Designer, Dreamer.
FontCreator user, GameMaker user, ex-GameMaker staff, ex-GMC Jam host.
Born in Ireland. Lives in Japan.
Caris Baker @c4r15.bsky.social Tech Artist / Art Director
MAGFest - The Music and Gaming Festival @magfest.org A four day, 24-hour event dedicated to music and video games located in National Harbor, MD. Hosted by MAGFest, Inc. - a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to making the world a better place through video games. https://www.magfest.org/
Catbird Soft @catbirdsoft.net Three-person indie team. Try our new game: JENNY THE WITCH, a high-speed shooter/slasher.
Check us out on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45182308
FuzzkingCool @fuzzkingcool.bsky.social Aleks Berland - Artist & Game Developer in Toronto.
dev @thedevbug.bsky.social game dev🐞
brooklyn
italian - puertorican
www.lolasportfolio.com
https://catacne.itch.io/fish-outta-water
Jake Weidner @jakeweidner.bsky.social #Gamedev Jake of All Trades!
Admin & Industry Liaison at NYU Game Center
Advisor for Experimental Game Workshop team at GDC
Formerly a Producer at: Pontoco, Pixelberry, Funomena
Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 @hoppingfun.bsky.social One of those creative types: Word-y, geek-y, game-y (oh wait).
I've been making games, stories, media, books, jazzy content for oodles of clients for decades. Come see: hoppingfun.com
Anthony Mattox @anthony.luckypaper.co Occasional artist, constant learner, avid home cook, software developer and designer, aspiring potter, MTG cube enthusiast, co-host of Lucky Paper Radio, increasingly pickled
Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co Here to talk about Magic, mostly Cube and other casual formats. Occasionally speaks in to microphones. He/himbo https://luckypaper.co/
My cubes: https://cubecobra.com/user/view/andymangold
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Jojo @justjogames.bsky.social Game Designer
Student
She/they
yippie!
Will Pyle 🛝 @willpyle.bsky.social 🎮 Game Developer 🛹 Tech Deck Enthusiast 🐈 Cat Dad 🏳️🌈 Human Rights Enjoyer
#indiegamedev #sologamedev #unity #godot
3ALIENSINASAUCER - ZOOM @3aliensinasaucer.bsky.social we are 3 little green guys who crash landed on earth and decided to pursue Game Dev! Glorp zorp glib! 👽👽👽
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Her name is Bee @bee-dani.com Tabletop and electronic gamedev. Loves turns, grids, cards and stuff like that. She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Catherine Stippell @catstip.bsky.social Super awkward board game designer. Nyctophobia! It’s All Connected? Back to the Present? I like hats. Earthbender. (playnyctophobia on Twitter)
(she/her)
CJ Tucker @crackerjackalope.bsky.social Writer, game designer, welsh, queer
they/them
https://crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/
kristen 𖦹 @lichenlabs.bsky.social 👁 developing 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬, a MY-body-as-horror fps
📟 find my games & discord! ↯
https://linktr.ee/lichenlabsgames
🦠 26 | she/they | mfa @ au game center
Anthony @flitterbick.bsky.social I like to jump from one creative project to the next, but I am currently working on finishing up a board game I've designed and hope to eventually turn into a digital game.
Discord Community: https://imgur.com/a/amalgam-board-game-rules-0lTmlgR
James Korin @jameskor.in 📍 bathroom map of nyc - https://privy.nyc
🎮 my most recent game - https://trappedinherewith.me
👨💻 my other work - https://jameskor.in
skalt711 @skalt711.bsky.social ~ I want you to fly again.
He/him
🌟Astro Arena ➡️ PLAY ON STEAM @astroarena.bsky.social We're a Ukrainian GameDev studio creating a crazy multiplayer action-packed... Rock-Paper-Scissors game!!! Using Godot!
Visit the game's website: https://astroarena.space
Play on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2997190/Astro_Arena
Nathan Mattingly @nathanmattingly.bsky.social 
Brian Baglow @brianbaglow.bsky.social Games generalist. Scottish specialist. Writing the First National strategy for games.
Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social Award-winning reporter. News editor at Game Developer.
Previously seen in Edge, Stuff, and Wireframe.
Tips: chris.kerr@gamedeveloper.com / chris.kerr.gd@protonmail.com / DMs open / Signal: kerrblimey.43
Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social ✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her)
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
Tamara Duplantis @tambalaya.bsky.social Tamara "Tammy" Duplantis
🎶Game Boy sound artist since 2014🎵
👾Digital media educator extraordinaire👾
Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk Head of Education & Practice, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Co-director, Games & Gaming Lab. Director, Ada Scotland Festival.
DCharlie @dcharlie.bsky.social Cumbrian nerd/shambles, previously 2 decades in Tokyo, now in Blackpool. Slightly rippled with a flat underside.
Nerding involves gaming of all ilks, game dev, music stuff
Outside nerding is playing footy, AMC, gigging, and lately DIY which has crept in
DarlingDeadDara Vtuber @darlingdeaddara.bsky.social I’m a hobby vtuber 29
Mostly studying!
Be kind and be happy! You deserve that!
You can follow me on twitch if you want!
twitch.com/darlingdeaddara
Claire Siegel @clairesiegel.bsky.social MCF Arts plastiques - Jeux Vidéo - Artgame & Game design
Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of unique, engaging TTRPGs.
www.possibleworldsgames.com
Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social Performs other tasks as required.
Jessica Floeh @hankypancreas.bsky.social healthcare UX designer, punsultant, conceptual playlist maker, connoisseur of disease and disability, #t1d since 1989 (vintage blend)
Cait✦May @caitmayart.com She/They
🌿Fantasy, Character, & Comic Artist🌿
Illustrator for Dimension20 FHJY/NSBU/CH
Critical Role, the McElroy Family, Twenty-Sided Tavern
🌈queer af feral goblin creachure
partner in crime: @TrevTellsTales
rep: @draper-claire
www.caitmayart.com
Marri @marri.bsky.social Writer (fiction & video games), narrative designer, editor, history of medicine MA. They/them.
Mattia Sicuro @mpts33.bsky.social 🏀Hooper, Character Rigger/Tech Artist for games. Board member with @igdanyc.bsky.social
Previously Player Support for mobile games.
Demo Reel: https://vimeo.com/890967060
Catherine Litvaitis 🐀 @litvac.com project coordinator @ halo studios (via aquent) ✦ @albanyigda.bsky.social board member ✦ she/her ✦ one-woman neopets cult ✦ ✉️: catherine@litvac.com ✦ thoughts = my own
Dylan Cruz @dracomora.bsky.social 
Dexter Gramfors @dxtr.se NYC-based software engineer, musician, esports broadcaster, and indie game dev.
speglargame.com
dxtr.se
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Keegan Chua @keeganchua.bsky.social Senior UI/UX Designer @ Aspiring Unicorn Games | prev: UXIF, Gearbox | not sure what to post here, but it will likely be art, games, food, and pets
www.keeganchua.com
Jason Schklar 🔜 GDC @jackalshorns.bsky.social CEO of UX is Fine.
For 24 years I've been helping folks find the fun, remove the suck, and build memorable games.
I still love it.
Pin this Games UX Feed ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xvrnhouybvtbnubekvvevhjn/feed/gameux
#gameux #gameuxr #gamesux
Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social Award winning Director of Marketing & Communications for video games.
IGDA, BAFTA, Canadian Game Awards Judge.
Speaker, Educator, Advocate, Snacker & Flâneur!
Reach out if you want to work together or need help.
✉️raj@ohmpage.ca
🍁Toronto, Canada
Braden League @bradenleague.com Professional videogamesman in Seattle. Doing UIUX in AAA games and probably would rather be running.
https://www.bradenleague.com